作者剋裏斯托夫·斯隆，美國《國傢地理》雜誌的古生物專傢和資深編輯，擁有對國傢地理學會研究發現的恐龍化石進行優先觀察的權利。他采訪瞭在野外考察及在實驗室工作的古生物學傢們，和他們一起工作，並將科學傢們的發現發錶在《國傢地理》雜誌上和書本上，將最新知識帶給廣大的青少年們。斯隆非常熱衷於製作恐龍插畫，並産生瞭用計算機將恐龍復原的想法，在本書中讀者可欣賞到很多精彩的圖片。

How did dinosaurs get feathers? How did they start flying? What use were feathers to dinosaurs that didn't fly? Chris Sloan's 2000 book Feathered Dinosaurs introduced kids to the radical idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and that birds are, in fact, a subset of dinosaurs. In How Dinosaurs Took Flight, Sloan returns to these ancient feathered creatures to introduce kids to the fascinating new finds—including a Tyrannosaur with feathers and a dinosaur with not just two but four wings. The author focuses on the tough new questions scientists are asking right now, the evidence they've gathered, the hypotheses that are developing from the evidence, and the unknowns that remain. This book will be the most up-to-date children's book on this topic on the market.